Over 7,000 runners for Euro Poker Millions

A total of 7,303 entries populated the 2026 Euro Poker Millions in Rozvadov as the post-WSOP poker FOMO impacted numbers across Europe.

With the €3 million guarantee exceeded by almost €1.2 million, Germany’s Andre Winkler Arnold won the €590 buy-in Euro Poker Millions King’s Resort in Rozvadov event for $482,790. The tournament is just one example of record-breaking fields around mainland Europe in the weeks following the 57th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.

The total of 7,303 entries in Europe’s biggest cardroom signals great strength in the live poker community. While in previous years, the hangover from the WSOP might have been felt by lower crowds in the following weeks, the opposite seems to be true this summer, with the British Goliath poker series also posting huge numbers in Coventry.

If poker FOMO (fear of missing out) is real, then players at Rozvadov in King’s Casino were the benefactors this week and chief amongst them was the German player Andre Winkler-Arnold. Winning the Euro Poker Millions event for €420,717 ($482,790), Winkler-Arnold beat players such as runner-up rival Gennaro Proscia ($338,580) and third-placed Ondrej Goetz ($331,170) to the title.

Winkler-Arnold Wins Latest Major at King’s

Winkler-Arnold’s win was the biggest title he’s taken in his career and should come as no surprise. Taking down the €550-entry event, the German won $22,045 in May as he outlasted 95 players in the similar buy-in WSOP Circuit ring event. That wasn’t his highest previous win, with the €24,250 he won in Rozvadov as part of the 2024 Circuito Nacional di Poker holding that title until this ore recent victory.

If anything, WSOP Europe’s absence from Rozvadov seems to have helped rather than hindered King’s role as the central poker room in the region. Situated on the Czech-German border, King’s Casino in Rozvadov was one of the first casinos to reopen after COVID and played host to the WSOP Europe Main Event until this year when the event series moved not only from Autumn to Spring but from Rozvadov to the capital city of Prague instead.

With post-WSOP crowds flocking to the felt in Europe’s biggest cities, the inevitable dip between WSOP stops might not be as noticeable in 2026 than it has been in previous years. The future of live poker looks very strong indeed if indications from its busy present are to be believed.